..Is people download the movie, see what shiat it is and don't bother paying to see it.
I read an article a while back where a movie exec was blaming text messaging for spreading negative views about a movie faster than it used to spread by word of mouth alone.
The faster people learn what crap a film is, the less money it makes, and since Hollywood has clearly decided that quality is a dirty word (Gigli) anything that cuts into the "All they know about the film is they hype" phase can be the difference between making and losing money on a flick.
the face on Mars turned out to be a bunch of rock formations that look NOTHING like a face at higher resolution. Take a sharper photo and the face is gone.
The great Pyramid was the ancient world version of Baston's "Big Dig." Corrupt contractors running away with the project. All Pharo wanted was a modest tomb for crying out loud! History states that his first words upon seeing it were "How the Hell much did this damn thing COST???"
The value of pi is just a ratio. Get over it.
Crop Circles are hoaxes.
The 1x4x9 thing is fiction form a BOOK and a MOVIE!
Thie whole Earth Moon Sun size thing is another fluke, perhaps a function of gravity and density, or proof God likes f***ing with our minds. That's about it.
Do you have any white papers detailing the licensing issues involved with Linux? We are thinking of deploying a Linux server. Are licenses per server, corporate or per CPU? I've heard only some kernel versions are covered. Would it be possible to remove kernel code to eliminate the SCO property and thus have a Linux version that did not incur additional license fees? If so, what code would be involved? Does or will SCO make similar claims regarding MAC OS X or any of the BSD variants? The whole issue is very murky at the moment, and we're looking for some clarification on the matter.
I'd like to draw a distinction between being dumb, lacking a skill and being uninformed.
When I buy a car, I do my research and buy a low maintenance car with good safety ratings. That's research. Failing to do research is dumb.
The fact that I NEED to do research is because I'm uninformed regarding the current stats on cars. However, I'm not going to learn the skill of repairing my car, I'll instead find someone who will do a good job for me.
In the example in the article, people are failing to do research into the problems involving potential printers.
I take my car to the mechanic because I lack the skill to do it myself. However, I do my research to find a reliable mechanic who will do a good job and not rip me off.
Having someone else paint your house for change your oil isn't dumb, it's because you don't have the time or interest in doing it. We pay people to do the things we don't want to do. That said, slimy painters and incompetent "Quicky" oil change locations stay in business because people don't do the research necessary to find someone better.
Failure to do research is, in my opinion, the reason Ford stays in business.
But I'd bet good money the odds are much lower of a hijacker trying to use the plane as a missile.
Let's be blunt, planes are not used as massive suicide bombs on a regular basis. I don't know the stats, but I suspect a system like this would cause more problems than it was worth.
Everyone is raising all sorts of examples of situations where having a "Soft Wall" would be a very bad thing, and would cost lives.
I suspect Boeing is going along with this either because of a PHB who can't see past the end of his nose, or because they know it is too dangerous to implement but have to investigate it anyway for political reasons.
That or the article's claims of Boeing's involvement are overstated, inflated and limited to "They sold us some specs that are avaialbe to the general public."
Great idea until someone needs to make an emergency landing on a C.D. Highway (Many Highways were required by law to have a certain amount of space that could be used as a landing strip) only to find the "Soft Wall" directs them into the orphanage next to the greyhound station where 2,000 nuns are loading up for their trip the the annual "Sisters of Mercy and free medical care division" convention.
And let's not get started on what being inside a "soft Wall" would do to properly values, and what being in the likely "Tried to hit the soft wall but ended up here" zone would do to the value of your property.
And who wants to be a whole slew of the wealthy will ante up to get their homes listed as being in a "Soft Wall"
And what about an out of date "Soft Wall" database that prevents a small plane from landing in a newly constructed airport?
And what about the manual override? There's ALWAYS a manual override. Just ask Riff.
My guess is that the average user is lazy, and would rather spend twice as much on the ink instead of being bothered to educate themselves.
Thank you very much. You just revealed the deep, dark secret of the Western Economy. All the work "they" have done to keep it secret and you went and blew the cover.
Most people are dumb, and want to stay dumb. If you make it easy for them to stay dumb, they will pay you money for it.
This has the benefit of making sure they never have enough money to move out of the middle class.
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..Is people download the movie, see what shiat it is and don't bother paying to see it.
I read an article a while back where a movie exec was blaming text messaging for spreading negative views about a movie faster than it used to spread by word of mouth alone.
The faster people learn what crap a film is, the less money it makes, and since Hollywood has clearly decided that quality is a dirty word (Gigli) anything that cuts into the "All they know about the film is they hype" phase can be the difference between making and losing money on a flick.
Yes, there is a shell based on Perl. Last I heard it was still alpha though. Haven't kept up with it.
Which shell are you running? They're not all the same you know.
:)
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Not even the terminal is standard!
I love it. I really do. I LOVE LINUX!
Windows is for computer games, just like my Playstation 2.
Well at home anyway. I'm still stuck with windows at work.
P2P gives up the control the RIAA has now.
The RIAA can keep standards low now (Spears, Backstreet and so on) but filesharing threatens that.
If musicians can make a living wihtout the RIAA, then they lose the fat contracts they have.
It's all about power and control. Lose that and their profit margins get shot to Hell. They'll have to WORK and offer DECENT Contracts to artists.
Rememeber, even with the drop in his market share, Prince makes more money now than he did at the peak of his popularity.
I guess the French surrendered one too many times.
Lipton makes Tea?
Since when?
I though they made powered and liquid Ipecac
Do you mean they use Tea leaves as one of the components???? What a waste!
No, no, no. This isn't Fox News. Slashdot isn't suing anyone who uses the phrase "News for Nerds."
/. isn't Fox News /. has no unified anti Arab theme
/. isn't pandering to George W, licking his jack boots avery 30 seconds.
How to tell
Not contstantly claiming to be "Fair and Balanced." (tm)
There are actual anti war opinions being voiced!
There's more, but I'm bored with this thread.
None of it means anyting in particlar.
the face on Mars turned out to be a bunch of rock formations that look NOTHING like a face at higher resolution. Take a sharper photo and the face is gone.
The great Pyramid was the ancient world version of Baston's "Big Dig." Corrupt contractors running away with the project. All Pharo wanted was a modest tomb for crying out loud! History states that his first words upon seeing it were "How the Hell much did this damn thing COST???"
The value of pi is just a ratio. Get over it.
Crop Circles are hoaxes.
The 1x4x9 thing is fiction form a BOOK and a MOVIE!
Thie whole Earth Moon Sun size thing is another fluke, perhaps a function of gravity and density, or proof God likes f***ing with our minds. That's about it.
Take off the Tinfoil Hats people.
Thanks for the tip. If all goes well I'll be picking up a linksys this weekend.
I'd been thinking aobut returning the #()*@& Netgear Wireless router for a week now. This swings it for me.
The blasted thing won't work with 128 bit encryption enabled, and now I find it's launching a DOS against a time server.
Great.
Screw Netgear. I'm returning the blasted hunk of junk.
There tech support is a pathetic joke anyway.
This is what I sent:
Do I need a license for using Linux?
Do you have any white papers detailing the licensing issues involved with Linux? We are thinking of deploying a Linux server. Are licenses per server, corporate or per CPU? I've heard only some kernel versions are covered. Would it be possible to remove kernel code to eliminate the SCO property and thus have a Linux version that did not incur additional license fees? If so, what code would be involved? Does or will SCO make similar claims regarding MAC OS X or any of the BSD variants? The whole issue is very murky at the moment, and we're looking for some clarification on the matter.
I'll post any replies I get in my journal.
Eh, doesn't matter. I'm not single anymore anyhow.
So, where were all these women who can't say "No" when I was single???
I use Firebird (Based on the Mozilla code) as my main browser. Netscape itself is/was too bloated and full of ads. Bleh.
I'd like to draw a distinction between being dumb, lacking a skill and being uninformed.
When I buy a car, I do my research and buy a low maintenance car with good safety ratings. That's research. Failing to do research is dumb.
The fact that I NEED to do research is because I'm uninformed regarding the current stats on cars. However, I'm not going to learn the skill of repairing my car, I'll instead find someone who will do a good job for me.
In the example in the article, people are failing to do research into the problems involving potential printers.
I take my car to the mechanic because I lack the skill to do it myself. However, I do my research to find a reliable mechanic who will do a good job and not rip me off.
Having someone else paint your house for change your oil isn't dumb, it's because you don't have the time or interest in doing it. We pay people to do the things we don't want to do. That said, slimy painters and incompetent "Quicky" oil change locations stay in business because people don't do the research necessary to find someone better.
Failure to do research is, in my opinion, the reason Ford stays in business.
You extended my statements beyond a rational conclusion.
I know a couple of "Trust Fund Babies" who are dumb as rocks, but are riding on Mommy and Daddy's legacy regardless.
The bottom line is, you usually have to be smart in one way or another to become wealthy.
Outside of Hollywood and modeling, dumb people rarely become millionaires.
And the Eastern economy does not do this?
:)
As I have no first hand expereince with Eastern Economies, I didn't feel I should generalize.
That said, based on what I've heard and read it is a universal constant.
Problem is, there are NO ground based contorls in the proposed system.
It's all a database stored on the plane.
The best possible solution is to prevent folks from feeling disenfranchised, uneducated and angry.
Ahhh, but that would require people be less greedy and treat their fellow human being with respect.
And you'd have to get BILLIONS on board to make it work!
The odds of these things are low
But I'd bet good money the odds are much lower of a hijacker trying to use the plane as a missile.
Let's be blunt, planes are not used as massive suicide bombs on a regular basis. I don't know the stats, but I suspect a system like this would cause more problems than it was worth.
Everyone is raising all sorts of examples of situations where having a "Soft Wall" would be a very bad thing, and would cost lives.
I suspect Boeing is going along with this either because of a PHB who can't see past the end of his nose, or because they know it is too dangerous to implement but have to investigate it anyway for political reasons.
That or the article's claims of Boeing's involvement are overstated, inflated and limited to "They sold us some specs that are avaialbe to the general public."
Great idea until someone needs to make an emergency landing on a C.D. Highway (Many Highways were required by law to have a certain amount of space that could be used as a landing strip) only to find the "Soft Wall" directs them into the orphanage next to the greyhound station where 2,000 nuns are loading up for their trip the the annual "Sisters of Mercy and free medical care division" convention.
And let's not get started on what being inside a "soft Wall" would do to properly values, and what being in the likely "Tried to hit the soft wall but ended up here" zone would do to the value of your property.
And who wants to be a whole slew of the wealthy will ante up to get their homes listed as being in a "Soft Wall"
And what about an out of date "Soft Wall" database that prevents a small plane from landing in a newly constructed airport?
And what about the manual override? There's ALWAYS a manual override. Just ask Riff.
My guess is that the average user is lazy, and would rather spend twice as much on the ink instead of being bothered to educate themselves.
Thank you very much. You just revealed the deep, dark secret of the Western Economy. All the work "they" have done to keep it secret and you went and blew the cover.
Most people are dumb, and want to stay dumb. If you make it easy for them to stay dumb, they will pay you money for it.
This has the benefit of making sure they never have enough money to move out of the middle class.
Surely even the lawmakers realize that this law is being exploited so that the rich get richer, the poor go out of business
What did you think the point of the law was?
It's a way to sue others into obilvion. Whoever has the most lawyers wins. End of story. That was the whole point of the law!
Time to leave the planet.
Any moment now a space ship will crash and announce "Take us to your lizzard."
At least Vogon poetry will be better than most pop crap.
As I said before:
My question is, if the whole planet now sounds like Ford Prefect is somewhere in the area, where's my electric thumb and my copy of that book with the "Don't Panic" cover?
Don't need it. A guy in my D&D group just finished it without hacks or cheats.